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The challenge of private biomedical research funding in Italy

Nature Medicine volume 5, pages 135–137 (1999)Cite this article

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Claudio Bordignon, scientific director of the Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele in Milan, Italy, describes how this non–profit foundation has created a competitive biomedical research institute based on scientific excellence.

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